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Rpadvice and you.
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Hey gang.
Of late the out of character role playing channel 'rpadvice' has been misused. It has seen a great deal arguments and general rudeness that is generally, not on. Let me give you a brief history of the channel: Around... two years ago, Khayri, Northwall and I noticed that the previous RP channel had fallen into decay. There was a great deal of derailing of role playing discussion, angry rants and general childish behaviour. As such, we decided to make a new, separate channel called "Rpadvice". It's goal, to introduce new role players to the realm, give them advise on lore and their characters! It was to be moderated by the three of us and when not discussing things with new players, we'd simply talk about role playing related topics. That is not what it is currently being used for. I'm all for a bit of... witty banter, perhaps some talk of latest memes, new releases of films etc. What it's not for is arguments. Arguing about role play or lore, yes. Arguing about who loves Vashnu the most, yes. Anything OOC, unrelated to the channel or generally... arguments are not welcome there. Of late we've seen a certain guild leader argue with a certain guild and their members. I'm not taking sides in the argument, but RPadvice is not the place for it. Take it to whisper, a party, or if you like I'll make a channel called "OMFGWTF" where you can argue. Just leave it alone please. |
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The same happens to every LFRP, RPAdvice and any other form of OOC RP channel on every server i've been on, unfortunatly. =/
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RPAdvice has been like this since it's inception.
If you want to fix it, have someone 'claim' the channel and set clear guidelines, banning people who don't follow the guidelines. But, when me and Khayri used to do this, we'd get a storm of banter thrown at us for unfair bans and abusing our status in the realm to discriminate against small-time RPers. I am all for letting someone try again. Personally, I'm too exhausted with the channel to begin with it, I'd prefer to just address the realm in general by setting up initiatives and making events. |
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It happens quite often, all it takes is one spark to start it all up and then it spreads like the plauge through the channel. Aye like Terrafros said, moderating it does help, if you have the mind of iron to deal with what comes after this standing up part. I myself have seen a few channels fall apart due to arguments and general stupid talk.
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I seem to remember a couple of years when this channel was formed arguing would be frequent, a year ago some one even shouted abuse my way for little reason. I was shocked and immediately blocked this said person and left the channel. Yet I will admit to the other side of the spectrum being very good. I remember a new person to RP wanting to role-play a rogue I was then able to give the needed advice along with others and mentor this person into a very abled role-player.
I am going to be very blunt, The Sha'tar needs a shape up. A lot of people including me I admit transferred across to the Argent Dawn as they were tired of petty bickering and lack of decent RP. [Not sure about the Horde side though] |
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This a thousand times |
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No offense, Vashnu, but when I came in on the channel for that brief period - (yes, I was trolling, though at the time I didn't really see what difference there was from what I was saying to what you RP bourgeois were) - I didn't see much RP Advice talk coming from yourself. It's all well and good saying these things and leaving these things on the forums as if they're some proof of you trying to stop the off-topic discussion, but it's another thing in reality. I got on there and you were talking about someone called James? I don't know.
What I think is the problem is that you allow this "friendly banter" to happen. Banter and arguments are a few words away from each other. If you allow, like on Trade, OOC banter and jokes to be told and people to generally mess about with each other, then you're giving trolls and guild arguments absolute free-reign to do what they want on it. I mean you either have the choice of making it strictly RP Advice talky talky or... this. What you've described. I mean it's not like we don't have millions of "banter" channels anyway. WATER OVER WINE DUDE! peacc out |
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No offense, Vashnu, but when I came in on the channel for that brief period - (yes, I was trolling, though at the time I didn't really see what difference there was from what I was saying to what you RP bourgeois were) - I didn't see much RP Advice talk coming from yourself. Thank you for making my point so much more clear Milkyjoe. We're so bogged down in arguments, petty and silly brawls and generally, people misusing the channel, that we don't even have time to administer advice. I'll be the first to say, we won't always need to give someone advice. But in the lack of someone requiring advice, our banter should be more directed toward role playing topics. Discussing lore, talking about role playing events or even role play you've recently enjoyed should be our off-topic discussions. Who's going to see the new Avengers film, who hates this 'James' and his Guardian guild, and using rpadvice to try and manipulate people to help you ban someone else from the channel. These are not topics we should discuss on Rpadvice. I'm not saying don't have any banter, just keep it role play related. If you want to discuss your fish tank, how much you hate someone, the average rainfall in York or how little you like Justin Timberlake, go take it up in another channel designed for such. |
